Record Keeping

Record-keeping is one of the most often overlooked aspects of animal sheltering, but also one of the most important. Learn why the numbers truly do matter, and how you can start being accountable literally, over night.

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Do you categorize your animals according to levels of adoptability and nonadoptability? Why or why not? And if the answer is yes, what method of categorizing do you use and why? How do you present your statistics to the public?

This basic matrix, in fillable .pdf form, was designed to serve as a tool for basic data collection. It is a simple matrix containing what many have agreed are the minimum data points an organization should gather.

A job worth doing is worth doing together. That's the basic idea of a groundbreaking new document designed to impact communities and animals around the country. The Asilomar Accords symbolizes the end of suspicion and distrust between animal care and control organizations and sets forth a new agenda -- one of collaboration.